Sharon Machlis
Executive Editor, Data & Analytics
Sharon Machlis is Director of Editorial Data & Analytics at IDG, where she works on analyzing data (both for IDG Enterprise Web sites and journalism projects) and in-house editor tools in addition to writing and editing. Her tech interests include data visualization and analysis as well as the intersection of journalism and technology. She holds an Extra class amateur radio license and is currently somewhat obsessed with R. Her book Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism was published in December 2018.
Easier ggplot with the ggeasy R package
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R data.table symbols and operators you should know
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Create a Shiny app to search Twitter with rtweet and R
See how to create an interactive Shiny web application to search, sort, and track tweets with a specific hashtag
How to search Twitter with rtweet and R
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How to send text messages from R
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How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table
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Get API data with R
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How to write your own ggplot2 functions in R
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How to use .SD in the R data.table package
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How to calculate month-over-month changes in R
See how to generate weekly and monthly reports in R including month-over-month, week-over-week, and year-over-year changes
How to Slack from R
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How to send email from R and Gmail
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How to use RStudio code snippets
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